Take Pride In Fooling The People

Take Pride in Fooling the People

That's What Editor Helber Says of Republican Bosses

Thought That They Will Lose Their Grip on State Treasury Fills Them with Horror

Editor Eugene J. Helber, when he has an English editorial in the Washtenaw Post, is not given to mincing words. Here is his latest editorial and certainly there is no mincing of words in it:

"On every hand and at every turn one meets republicans that are in rebellion against the party bosses. It seems as if the whole republican party was in rebellion. They declare they will end this buying of nominations by rich men, this selling of offices, the honors of the state, to the highest bidders by a party boss. The best men in the republican party have been elbowed out and insulted at every caucus for years by the hired herd of democrats with which the gang controls the nominations. They have been disfranchised, year after year, by a ring of the dirtiest boodlers in the state and they are determined this must cease. There is going to be a general uprising against the boss and his gang and they are panic striken. They fear they will lose their hold upon the throat of the republican party and upon the state treasury and be obliged to work for a living and this thought fills them with terror. So they set their wits to work as to how they could fool the people once more and hang on to their jobs for another period of years for which every one of them is unfitted, both morally and mentally, and they have hit upon this thin scheme of primary election for county nominees. They know they have nothing to lose by it and much to gain for themselves. They know that not one candidate on the county and legislative ticket can be elected this fall, yet they hope by this show of generosity to hold some votes in line for "their governor and congressman," as in the election of either the good jobs or swill, as Boss Bill puts it, will continue to be theirs. Bill prides himself on his skill at fooling the people and holding on to jobs, yet there is always an ending with such as he and such as hope for profit by hanging on to such people. There is always a reckoning and we believe it is at hand for Bill and his gang."